Morgan Rondinelli talks about growing up with OCD without knowing she had OCD. And how connecting with the OCD community changed her life forever.

Intrusive thoughts – random, uncomfortable thoughts just pop into your head – are common in OCD, and I’ve had many of them. In fact, the majority of people in the population have intrusive ...

When you see me counting on my fingers, making weird movements with my tongue, or counting out loud in a unique manner, it is because I am having, what I like to call, an “OCD attack.” ...

“My thoughts were so jumbled that it was almost like I had voices in my head, but it was actually just my OCD.” ...

The truth is, while having OCD might seem confusing or strange, just know, it takes everything in me to appear as though everything is fine even when there’s chaos in my head.

When I was deciding whether or not to get a dog, I found myself having some weird OCD thoughts again: What if I poisoned the dog's water? What if I was tempted to take a knife from the kitchen and ...

It is not uncommon to hear an OCD sufferer make a comment such as “OCD thoughts are ruining my life,” or “I have to get rid of these thoughts!” This refrain is echoed by many of my clients ...

I didn’t realise that my strange thoughts, my strange rituals, were actually a sign of a mental health condition. I thought it was just a silly, secretive quirk.

She adds, "It doesn’t mean everyone has OCD, but everyone has weird unwanted thoughts, and some of the most caring and compassionate people are troubled by it.

Andreas Petersen examines the divisive extreme horror film 'The Sadness' and how well it represents the horrors of intrusive thoughts.

From ideas of murder to irrational fears, intrusive thoughts afflict most people. But when David Adam‘s fear of catching HIV persisted, he developed OCD FOR Winston Churchill, it was an urge to ...

It's one thing to have weird thoughts every now and then. But what if you were bombarded with them all the time? That was the case for Laura Donovan, 27, a writer who lives in Los Angeles and has ...